Speakers

Tina Shashikanth

Tina Shashikanth works as a journalist. Her poems deal with a variety of thought processes, especially scientific. She has started juxtaposing sexual, spiritual relationships with various scientific theories, of late. She usually deals with urban, sensual themes. Hailing from Malnad region of Karnataka, she believes that deeper exploration of the sensual and the material eventually leads to transcendence. She prefers to take various aesthetic approaches and forge her own path into a fresh, new terrain. She is fascinated by modern approaches and experiments in poetry.